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and the american people walked away from us. what we have in this proposal is not necessarily new -- the idea of fiscal responsibility, pro growth policies, openness and transparency in government are solid american ideas. what republicans are committing to in the pledge for america is taking important first steps in this congress to steer our national government back to the basic practices. >> congressman van hollen, do you agree? is this a return to core principles or is this a rehash? oh. >> this is a rehash. a recycling of the bush economic agenda. a new front page. otherwise, this is a xerox copy. the whole answer to everything seems to be give the folks at the top a tax break and they want to undo of the regulations and reforms on wall street. i mean, the problems on wall street led to catastrophe around the country. millions of people lost their jobs. and they're trying to do what lobbyists tried very hard to do but didn't succeed which is to say let's put those guys back in charge. it is a return to the bush economic age
and the american people walked away from us. what we have in this proposal is not necessarily new -- the idea of fiscal responsibility, pro growth policies, openness and transparency in government are solid american ideas. what republicans are committing to in the pledge for america is taking important first steps in this congress to steer our national government back to the basic practices. >> congressman van hollen, do you agree? is this a return to core principles or is this a rehash?...
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and what can each one of us do to help? our discussion with around secretary of education, arne duncan, and leading reformer and chancellor of washington, d.c. schools, michelle rhee, randi weingarten, president of the federation of teachers. and robert bobb, emergency financial manager of detroit public schools. >>> but first, to politics and the fight for congress. >>> but first, to politics and the fight for congress. will the house, in this divided campaign season, fall to the gop? if so, what will republicans do in power? this week, republican leaders in the house unveiled their pledge to america, campaign manifesto that's the 2010 version of the gop's contract with america from 1994. the highlights -- extend the bush tax cuts, cut spending, and repeal health care reform. >> our pledge to america is that the republicans stand ready to get it done and beginning today. >> but the question is, are these new ideas or more of the same? here to debate that question among others, one of the architects of the republican pledge
and what can each one of us do to help? our discussion with around secretary of education, arne duncan, and leading reformer and chancellor of washington, d.c. schools, michelle rhee, randi weingarten, president of the federation of teachers. and robert bobb, emergency financial manager of detroit public schools. >>> but first, to politics and the fight for congress. >>> but first, to politics and the fight for congress. will the house, in this divided campaign season, fall to...
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for all of us at nbc news, thanks for joining us. >>> this sunday from new york, a special edition of "meet the press." this morning, we kick off a week-long commitment at nbc news to "education nation." we will try to cut to the core of the crisis in public education. this weekend's opening of the emotional documentary, "waiting for superman" is a powerful reminder that too many schools are failing our children, and america's competitiveness is suffering as a result. are resources the answer? facebook founder mark zuckerburg announced he'll donate $100 million to newark, new jersey's schools. how do we make sure the best teachers are in the classroom? what reforms are working? and what can each one of us do to help? our discussion with around duncan, leading reformer and chancellor of washington, d.c. schools, michelle rhee, randi weingarten, president of the federation of teachers. and robert bobb, emergency financial manager of detroit and robert bobb, emergency financial manager of detroit public schools. captions paid for by nbc-universal television 0. >>> but first, to politics
for all of us at nbc news, thanks for joining us. >>> this sunday from new york, a special edition of "meet the press." this morning, we kick off a week-long commitment at nbc news to "education nation." we will try to cut to the core of the crisis in public education. this weekend's opening of the emotional documentary, "waiting for superman" is a powerful reminder that too many schools are failing our children, and america's competitiveness is suffering...
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give us a couple more years. if it's not better then, y can throw us out. after all, you left the republicans in for a long time. at least give us four years to ry to fix this mess. what i would like to see them talk about now is two things. one, and most important, what are we going to do in the next twyears and who is more likely to do it? where are the jobs are going to come from, small business, manufacturing and clean energy? where is the money to finance them? banks and corporations in america today have lots of money that they can invest right now. banks have $1.8 trillion in cash reserves uncommitted to loans. more than enough to get us out. and the third thing is the job training thing i mentioned earlier, how are they going to train people for the things that are there? then the democrats ought to talk about the republican agenda. they want to repeal financial reform. they want to repeal the best student loan reformn history. health care needs fixing, but if you repeal it, you'll go back to what we had this year, 2009, in the depths that recession
give us a couple more years. if it's not better then, y can throw us out. after all, you left the republicans in for a long time. at least give us four years to ry to fix this mess. what i would like to see them talk about now is two things. one, and most important, what are we going to do in the next twyears and who is more likely to do it? where are the jobs are going to come from, small business, manufacturing and clean energy? where is the money to finance them? banks and corporations in...
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they drove us into the ditch. if we give the keys back to the people who did this, it would be like giving the keys to herbert hoover in the 1930s. >> with midterm elections nine weeks off instead of generation transformation some democrats e predicted after '08, people say they will vote for republicans over democrats in congress. the largest such gap ever recorded by gala. how did it get so bad? >> first of all, when you have a tough economy and you are in power, you're going to have a tough political environment. secondly, we won so many elections in 2006 and 2008. even in the neutral electoral environment it was clear we will get some of that back. over the next two months we have to do two things. get more democrats enthused about voting and laying out stakes of this election and real choice. and secondly for those undecided voters out there, make them understand this is not the new republican party. it's the same old ideas. the same old adherence to special interest. speaker boehner talked about all of the r
they drove us into the ditch. if we give the keys back to the people who did this, it would be like giving the keys to herbert hoover in the 1930s. >> with midterm elections nine weeks off instead of generation transformation some democrats e predicted after '08, people say they will vote for republicans over democrats in congress. the largest such gap ever recorded by gala. how did it get so bad? >> first of all, when you have a tough economy and you are in power, you're going to...
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boehner wants to give us. we just can't afford it. and really what we ought to do is as the president said agree on the middle class tax cuts. let's not hold them hostage while we debate whether we're going to give this very small number of people at the top a tax cut that we can't afford. >> it was striking to me hearing the president on friday when he talked about the economy and the choice in this election. he did not mention anything in his opening remarks about health care reform, which he and you and others have billed as signature achievement of this administration and you said once people know more about health care, the more popular it will become. we see reporting this week in politico that in fact there aren't any democrats who supported this who are out there touting that vote and only those that opposed it are touting it in the election. senator chuck schumer was on the program in march and this is what he said about health care. >> i predict by november those who voted for health care will find it an asset and those who
boehner wants to give us. we just can't afford it. and really what we ought to do is as the president said agree on the middle class tax cuts. let's not hold them hostage while we debate whether we're going to give this very small number of people at the top a tax cut that we can't afford. >> it was striking to me hearing the president on friday when he talked about the economy and the choice in this election. he did not mention anything in his opening remarks about health care reform,...